Prospects in Theoretical Physics is an intensive two-week summer
program designed for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
considering a career in theoretical physics. The 2007 program was
held from July 16 to July 27. First held by the...
Nathan
Seiberg, Professor, School of Natural Sciences. This lecture
discusses how the Large Hadron Collider is expected to provide
further information about the standard model of particle physics,
which describes the elementary particles and the...
John Norris Bahcall, Richard Black Professor of Astrophysics in
the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study,
recipient of the National Medal of Science, president of the
American Astronomical Society, President-Elect of the...
In the 1980's, Atiyah introduced a mathematical definition of
the notion of a topological quantum field theory. In this talk,
I'll recall Atiyah's definition and explain the motivation for the
more elaborate notion of an extended topological field...
Although it is known that AdS/CFT as a quantum erasure
correction code is only approximate, there is still much to learn
about the precise bulk physical consequences of deviating from
exact erasure correction codes. In this talk, I will take...
Black holes are never isolated in realistic astrophysical
environments; instead, they are often perturbed by complicated
external tidal fields. How does a black hole respond to these tidal
perturbations? In this talk, I will discuss both the...